Full FeedWhoops: Radio Shack and Circuit City Advertising Jailbroken Touches
Yesterday, a funny yet careless thing happened. In both Circuit City’s and Radio Shack’s weekend newspaper circulars, in their iPod Touch Ads, the Touches shown were Jailbroken. It is very surprising that this slip was able to get through the art department for both companies. Maybe they should ban Google Images during their ad campaigns to prevent something like this from happening. In the picture to the right, you can see MobileChat and Installer icons, both of which require the iPod to be JailBroken before they can be installed. Apple has had a very hard time with losing the 3rd party app market, and Mr. Jobs won’t be too happy that this hacked product is not only easily done to an iPod touch, but that the fact is being broadcast in some of the most popular newspapers. Customers of these two popular companies may also discover that they in fact do not get the extra features with their iPod, and to add them is to void your warranty. The biggest lesson here: check the facts before going to the press.
Via [Engadget]
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Also, the address book (contacts), is a sign of a jail-broken iPhone. The current iPhone firmware only has the contacts under the Phone app.
on April 16, 2008 at 06:03 PM - LINKThe icon on the Top right? That is contacts, which does come from the factory. This is an iPod Touch, not an iPhone, so that would be valid with an iPhone, but that is not what they were advertising.
on April 16, 2008 at 06:07 PM - LINKDoh, I should have realized that. Makes me wonder why they didn’t add it to the iPhone as well. Much more convenient.
on April 16, 2008 at 06:55 PM - LINKI actually do some work with Circuit City, and I know that they did not feature the same iPod Touch image as radio shack did. The image in Circuit City’s ads was approved by Apple.
on April 17, 2008 at 02:41 PM - LINK